I used to use Tradestation and spent a while testing a black box for the emini S&P. I would say it would take about a month to really figure out easy language. It's been a while since I did it, so I don't remember all that much. It prints out some pretty sweet reports on your system statistics. I think it will only work on multiple symbols if the manner in which you programmed the system can be generalized to many price ranges and markets. Mine was programmed to the emini S&P price range. For example, one code might specify something about a 1.5 point movement. If I ran it for emini Dow or a stock it didn't work.

I'm also pretty sure you can program it for multiple indicators if you like. As long as you can keep all that code organized. Programming it is very meticulous work. Sometimes you make a mistake and have to dig through pages and pages of code to figure out what is incorrect. When it does work, it is pretty cool, though.

Be careful...it's also EASY to make some mistakes in easy language without getting a warning.....
also, the achilles heal of the language has always been the inability to analyze multiple strategies as a single account. Even with the rewrite that has been done in the past 3 years, they still didn't provide this functionality.

Everyone Thanks! After watching the tapes I think itâs not to hard compared to many of the things I am doing with TS now. The tapes and work book are VERY WELL WRITEN! Better then I expected. What I am going to do is write my systems and back test them in about 30 days and if I am still having issues I will take some classes at TS to ask questions about weak points.